My word April 27th is FREE

My word for April 27 is FREE

I love going on walks especially at the farm.  I always take the dogs with me.  They have the best time running fast, smelling everything, and jumping in every spot of water there is.  At home the little dogs have a fence where they lounge around all day.  We also have an invisible fence for our lab.  Even though they have plenty of room to play they are still fenced in an area.  When they jump out of my car at the farm they know they are free.  They run all over, but they always will stop and look behind them making sure I am following.  It is funny watching them.  One, usually Bella the lab, is in the lead.  She runs, stops and smells, runs, stops and smells.  Chimmy, our rescue dog, is right on Bella’s tail doing everything she does.  Today I took Taffy.  Taffy is our 11 year old Maltese, yes a white dog, not a good mix- dirt and white.  Gosh love her, she tried to keep up but her little legs with her small 8 pound frame couldn’t’ keep up with the 60 pounder or the 25 pounder.  Taffy however had a grand time being free in nature and just hanging out with me pulling up the rear.  If dogs could talk I know they would be saying, “free at last”. 

On the way home from the farm, with all three dogs in the front of my suburban with me, one of my favorite songs came on the radio, “Free” By Dara Maclean.  Here are some of the lyrics:

Hurting heart and broken wings

Cannot stop Your love from always finding me

No more days wasting away

I finally realize the gift inside of me

My strength alone will never be enough

But Your arms keep lifting me up

Chorus:

You tell me I've been made free

You give me everything I need to walk in my dreams

You whisper words that free my soul

You're the reason I have hope

You're everything I need and more

You made me

You made me free

I was caged in, then You opened

Every door that held me bound and You gave me the key

No more pressure I can just breathe

The girl I tried so hard to be, has always been me

My strength alone will never be enough

But Your arms keep lifting me up

Now I'm free to love, free to live,

Free to take my life and give it all to You

We are free.  Whether we have a hurting heart or whether we are broken we can’t stop God from loving us.  He will find us and give us strength.  He puts his arms around us and lifts us up.  The Lord gives us everything we need to walk out of the adversity that we are in and do whatever it is we dream of doing.  He gives us hope and allows us to breathe again.   He opens every door and sets us free from what has us caged in.  He gives us the key so we are free to love, free to live, and free to follow his purpose for us. 

With God you can break out of the cage you are in, you are FREE!

Dear Lord help us to see that we are free when we are walking with You.  You give us everything we need to survive anything and everything.  You lift us up and love us no matter what.  Thank you for loving us so much that we are free to live having hopes and dreams for our future.  During our journey of 2012 keep us out of the cages of life that bring sadness, give us the keys to make our journey free!

Even to your old age and gray hairs I am He, I am He who will sustain you. I have made you and I will carry you; I will sustain you and I will rescue you. (Isaiah 46:4)

In my anguish I cried to the LORD, and He answered by setting me free. (Psalm 118:5)

Through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life set me free from the law of sin and death. (Romans 8:2)

(From: http://www.elyrics.net/read/d/dara-maclean-lyrics/free-lyrics.html)